After milk, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has found contamination to be quite common among food items across the country. A comparative analysis has shown adulteration rates as high as 40% in Chhattisgarh, 34% in Uttarakhand, 29% in Uttar Pradesh, 23% in Rajasthan and 20% in West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh. Besides, nearly 17% of the food samples tested in Bihar and Chandigarh, 16% in Nagaland, 15% in...
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National shame: child malNutrition still very high
-Governance Now Child malNutrition may have fallen in recent years but 42 percent of the children under the age of five are underweight, according to the Hunger and MalNutrition survey conducted by Naandi Foundation. A report with the survey findings says that the growth of nearly 60 percent children is stunted. This has happened despite the economy growing at more than seven percent since the last eight years. The survey collected data...
More »India 'shamed' by child malNutrition, says PM Singh
-BBC Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has branded malNutrition among children a "national shame", after a report said nearly half of children under five in the country were underweight. According to the report, 42% of children in that age bracket are suffering from malNutrition. Mr Singh said the level of malNutrition in India was "unacceptably high". The Hunger and MalNutrition Report also said that one in three malnourished children in the world is Indian. India...
More »Every third malnourished child is an Indian: report
-CNN-IBN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released the first-ever citizens' report on child malNutrition in the national capital on Tuesday. "The problem of malNutrition is a national shame," the Prime Minister said. The statistics in the HUNGaMA (Hunger and MalNutrition) report say that every third malnourished child on the planet is an Indian. The report, on the survey conducted by Naandi Foundation, has been made at the insistence of the Citizens' Alliance against...
More »The real India story: PM calls malNutrition a shame
-Agence France-Presse Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malNutrition in the country "a national shame" on Tuesday as he released a major survey that found 42% of children under five were underweight. "I repeat that the problem of malNutrition is a matter of national shame," Singh said at the launch of the HUNGaMA (Hunger and MalNutrition) Report, which surveyed 73,000 households across nine states. "Despite impressive growth in our GDP, the level of under-Nutrition...
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